Let’s see. An almost 50 year old design with known quality control issues? Sounds like something that a politician would want to bet the country’s future on.
“quality control issues”
Quality control issues? Yeah, I guess a design that was only supposed to last 15 years, now pushing 40 YEARS, has quality control issues... NOT.
We are allowing the politicians to FLY the wings off of aircraft far in excess of their planned service life so that they can give handouts to their money bag supporters and the shiny new toy mob in the pentagon.